Peter's Grand Embassy
March 1697
Peter I left Russia incognito, traveling through Prussia, the Netherlands, and England to study shipbuilding, artillery, navigation, and dentistry. He worked for months as a carpenter in the Dutch East India Company dockyards. No reigning European monarch had ever deliberately made himself a common laborer abroad, and the skills he gathered would fuel the transformation of Russia into a modern European power.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.